Revising Lindiga phonology

Lindiga has a moderately large set of consonant phonemes in its current
state:

p b    t d           rt rd         k g
m      n             rn            ng
              rr     r
f v           s z    rs rz         ch
u                           i
       tl l          rtl rl

The original Lindiga consonant inventory was much smaller:

p      t             t.            k
m      n             n.            ng
              r
              s      s.            h
v                           j
       l             l.

A number of things happened to increase the number of consonant phonemes. A
retroflex flap /r./ and a labiodental fricative /f/ were added early on;
even the earliest documents I kept already have them. Then, I decided that
/w/ and /j/ should be fricatives, /v/ and /z./, which introduced a voiced /
voiceless distinction into the language. At some point, sequences of /t/ +
/l/ turned into a single phoneme, a lateral fricative, and the same thing
happened to the much rarer /t./ + /l./ combination. It must have seemed
strange not to have a distinction between /s/ and /z/ with all these other
contrasts in the language. Vowel sequences such as /ia/ being pronounced
[ja] led to the reintroduction of /w/ and /j/ as consonant phonemes.

The problem with all these changes is it makes it harder to learn the
words. And now, whenever I change the sounds of the language, I need to
update the web pages. So I'm thinking of eliminating the voiced/voiceless
distinction, changing some words back to older forms, and going through the
vocabulary to mark words that I'm satisfied with and won't be changing.

The vowel system also underwent some changes, but mostly in spelling:
Old                             New
i  i^   y  y^   u  u^           i  ie   y  ue   u  ou
e  e^           o  o^           é  ei   ø  oe
e. e.^          o. o.^          e  ae           o  oa
a  a^                                   a  aa

/y/ changed from unrounded to rounded, and /o/ went from being a back vowel
to a central vowel. But going over the vocabulary list, there really aren't
many words distinguished by vowel length. Some words need the vowel length
distinction to get the stress on the right syllable, but it might be better
just to have phonemic stress.

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